Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Pull System (revisited)

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>]

Chris wrote:
> > I suggest that if you want to take this further you submit a draft and see
> > if you can persuade people to read it.
>
> I need to know more before I do, if I do. thats why this thread.
> apart from IM2000 and Brett Watsons thesis I cannot find much.
There were some discussions a while back as well. Some folks such as 
Brett Watson himself, and some others can provide more information if 
you contact them directly. So far no one has presented pros and cons of 
pull model vs. push model in a single document, which is something that 
might be useful, especially if the evaluation model in the tech 
considerations document is followed.

However, the single overriding concern about such system is deployment. 
This is the same problem that faces anyone who wants to replace SMTP 
with a different protocol, push or pull, such as the various AMTP 
variants discussed earlier on. Majority of folks think that complete 
replacement of today's SMTP infrastructure would take too long and be 
too costly, while easier and almost as effective solutions exist.

The problem with SMTP is not unique to that protocol itself, it is also 
found in other protocols and the structure of the Net itself - every 
user on the Net is inherently trusted by the network. That allows spam, 
trojans, viruses, DDOS attacks, etc. That problem need to be though 
through not just for spam, but for the Internet as whole.

Yakov


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